Community Calendar: January

Triple XP Event: Heroes and VillainsJanuary 4th - 6th
We're kicking off the new year with our first ever triple experience event. During this time playing Heroes vs Villains and Hero Showdown will earn three times the amount of experience as normal. No better time to level up your General Grievous and Obi Wan Kenobi.

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Triple XP Event: TroopersJanuary 11th - 13th
January continues to be the month of triple experience with a special event revolving around Troopers. Jump into Blast and Strike to earn bonus experience for all your troopers.

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Triple XP Event: StarfightersJanuary 18th - 20th
Take the battle into space as we finish up a month of triple experience in Starfighter Assault and Hero Starfighters.

The "Eras" event will be a good sample of what would be GA with heroes locked by era.
More than an event for the players, it'll be an experiment for the devs.
I don't want to miss that event.
Good idea devs!

So how will the final phase work for the ST era maps - where the darkside only have 2 villains with Kylo/Phasma... and the lightside has Rey/Finn/Han/Leia/Luke/Chewie?
Is it still going to be 4 lightside heroes available in the final phase?

So how will the final phase work for the ST era maps - where the darkside only have 2 villains with Kylo/Phasma... and the lightside has Rey/Finn/Han/Leia/Luke/Chewie?
Is it still going to be 4 lightside heroes available in the final phase?

Unless they restrict the hero count on the ST era maps down to 2 for the duration of the event, there's really going to be a lot of balancing issues happening there no matter what. Also, they must fix Kylo Ren's frenzy not working and buff Phasma a bit for GA otherwise the First Order might as well be going hero-free on this one.

So how will the final phase work for the ST era maps - where the darkside only have 2 villains with Kylo/Phasma... and the lightside has Rey/Finn/Han/Leia/Luke/Chewie?
Is it still going to be 4 lightside heroes available in the final phase?

I guess they'll limit heroes number to 2 in ST maps.
One inevitable conclusion of the Eras event will be "we don't have enough heroes/villains for ST era".
I insist: if they plan to include more heroes after Anakin, Poe and Hux are the best options.

So how will the final phase work for the ST era maps - where the darkside only have 2 villains with Kylo/Phasma... and the lightside has Rey/Finn/Han/Leia/Luke/Chewie?
Is it still going to be 4 lightside heroes available in the final phase?

Unless they restrict the hero count on the ST era maps down to 2 for the duration of the event, there's really going to be a lot of balancing issues happening there no matter what. Also, they must fix Kylo Ren's frenzy not working and buff Phasma a bit for GA otherwise the First Order might as well be going hero-free on this one.

So how will the final phase work for the ST era maps - where the darkside only have 2 villains with Kylo/Phasma... and the lightside has Rey/Finn/Han/Leia/Luke/Chewie?
Is it still going to be 4 lightside heroes available in the final phase?

Jakku and takodana never gets to the final phase anyways. Only a problem to crait

I'm glad to see Dooku is coming before the literal last day of the month, I just wish he was coming out before classes started back : /. But...
FINALLY!!! I've been dying for an Era-accurate Galactic Assault match, this sounds wonderful. I hope that the hero count is limited in-round to 2 characters for each Faction for the ST, but the Light Side still has the Original Trilogy folks to choose from. Hopefully we can see some more characters for the Sequels arrive soon, like Maz (in-game), Hux (...basically the announcer Ginger), Snoke, and my dude Poe Dameron to give them a full HvV and GA roster.
Also moar Clown Wurz characters if ya can, I want to behead Mace as Jango on Coruscant.
Wait...

"I felt there was a large amount of human chauvinism... also I felt very bad that at the end the Wookie didn't get a medal also... oh, all the people got medals but the Wookie who had been in there fighting all the time, didn't get any medal, and I thought that was an example of Anti-Wookie discrimination." - Carl Sagan on the subject of Star Wars
He knew.

Really excited for dooku and anakin. Clone wars is my favorite content. I like the OT characters and maps second. The new characters I refuse to use on principle. Ray, Finn, phasma, ect disgust me. Zero interest in that trash.

I’m really excited for Count Dooku and his additional appearance, but please change the name to make it more accurate before you release it. It’s Dooku’s sparring uniform. He was wearing it before he even knew that they were going to do a dark ritual. Here’s your canon source for the name of the appearance: https://www.starwars.com/tv-shows/clone-wars/sacrifice-trivia-gallery. It’s on the third slide. Please give it the right name when you release it to us because I’m really happy that it’s coming to the game, but I want it to be labeled right. Thank you!

I doubt it. They probably change the appearance for the phase I troopers.

Most battalions and even companies had ARF Troopers (Advanced Recon Force Troopers, and they were scouts.) If Dice was to say that the entire 41st Elite Corps was made up of ARF Troopers, they would be saying that approximately all 36864 troopers were ARF Troopers, which is very wrong. Dice somewhat tried to make the different classes similar to different types of Clone armor, but the Specialist was the closest, and they are in standard armor with a pauldron and macro binoculars. If it was worth all the time it would take to design them, it would be nice to see every variant have different armor types, like standard phase I and II armor, ARF Troopers, Flame Troopers, Jet Trooper, and so on. But that's a lot of character models that other factions don't have. Look forward to when modders get access to making character models. Still, Dice is doing a good job of picking clone appearances. It would also be nice if the Officer's armored appearance had the same variants as the other troopers.

I honestly can't wait for Era weekend for GA I usually play it 40% of the time but that weekend the numbers will bump up to 100% of the time because this is what i've been waiting for once they officially get enough heroes and villains for all the eras I hope they do this full time for GA

You can't imagine my friend! Hah, even if it's just for a weekend.....I'll be devoting every waking hour to the GA as I wish it had been done. I still play this game all the time and I appreciate all of us who have kept it alive (even those I have disagreed and debated with) because I know we all want a Battlefront game we can live our skills and imagination with.....and this one weekend will be a gift to me to not see Rey on Naboo.....for the first time ever. NO wall hacks on that map for that weekend my friends.

I really think this shall prove very interesting because there will be challenging limitations applied for some that should lead to some new strategies and variety in gameplay. The Emperor won't dominate any ST maps, Rey cannot wall hack Endor or Mos Eisley, Boskk won't be gassing the check points on Takodana or Crait, Yoda will probably be PT restricted. Or so it seems.

This should be a liberating experience! It'll be quite a different Galactic Assault for a few days!

Triple XP Event: Heroes and VillainsJanuary 4th - 6th
We're kicking off the new year with our first ever triple experience event. During this time playing Heroes vs Villains and Hero Showdown will earn three times the amount of experience as normal. No better time to level up your General Grievous and Obi Wan Kenobi.

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Triple XP Event: TroopersJanuary 11th - 13th
January continues to be the month of triple experience with a special event revolving around Troopers. Jump into Blast and Strike to earn bonus experience for all your troopers.

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Triple XP Event: StarfightersJanuary 18th - 20th
Take the battle into space as we finish up a month of triple experience in Starfighter Assault and Hero Starfighters.

Here's hoping that they lock the eras hard. Prequel era will always end in a light side victory if they do it based solely off of who is seen in the movies. People tend to miss this specific fact far more often than they should when complaining about cross-era and freedom of choice.

You can't imagine my friend! Hah, even if it's just for a weekend.....I'll be devoting every waking hour to the GA as I wish it had been done. I still play this game all the time and I appreciate all of us who have kept it alive (even those I have disagreed and debated with) because I know we all want a Battlefront game we can live our skills and imagination with.....and this one weekend will be a gift to me to not see Rey on Naboo.....for the first time ever. NO wall hacks on that map for that weekend my friends.

I really think this shall prove very interesting because there will be challenging limitations applied for some that should lead to some new strategies and variety in gameplay. The Emperor won't dominate any ST maps, Rey cannot wall hack Endor or Mos Eisley, Boskk won't be gassing the check points on Takodana or Crait, Yoda will probably be PT restricted. Or so it seems.

This should be a liberating experience! It'll be quite a different Galactic Assault for a few days!

If they're truly being Era specific, Yoda should be available in all eras.

You can't imagine my friend! Hah, even if it's just for a weekend.....I'll be devoting every waking hour to the GA as I wish it had been done. I still play this game all the time and I appreciate all of us who have kept it alive (even those I have disagreed and debated with) because I know we all want a Battlefront game we can live our skills and imagination with.....and this one weekend will be a gift to me to not see Rey on Naboo.....for the first time ever. NO wall hacks on that map for that weekend my friends.

I really think this shall prove very interesting because there will be challenging limitations applied for some that should lead to some new strategies and variety in gameplay. The Emperor won't dominate any ST maps, Rey cannot wall hack Endor or Mos Eisley, Boskk won't be gassing the check points on Takodana or Crait, Yoda will probably be PT restricted. Or so it seems.

This should be a liberating experience! It'll be quite a different Galactic Assault for a few days!

If they're truly being Era specific, Yoda should be available in all eras.

I think most who want era accurate are fine with keeping him playable ONLY in his combative phase of his life.

You can't imagine my friend! Hah, even if it's just for a weekend.....I'll be devoting every waking hour to the GA as I wish it had been done. I still play this game all the time and I appreciate all of us who have kept it alive (even those I have disagreed and debated with) because I know we all want a Battlefront game we can live our skills and imagination with.....and this one weekend will be a gift to me to not see Rey on Naboo.....for the first time ever. NO wall hacks on that map for that weekend my friends.

I really think this shall prove very interesting because there will be challenging limitations applied for some that should lead to some new strategies and variety in gameplay. The Emperor won't dominate any ST maps, Rey cannot wall hack Endor or Mos Eisley, Boskk won't be gassing the check points on Takodana or Crait, Yoda will probably be PT restricted. Or so it seems.

This should be a liberating experience! It'll be quite a different Galactic Assault for a few days!

If they're truly being Era specific, Yoda should be available in all eras.

Chewbacca is probably the only one who should cover all eras....I'm sure most who are in support of Era Accuracy only want Yoda playable in his combative era.